What if other species of humanoids from our evolutionary past had survived? What would the evolutionary process have had in store for them? Learning about the archeological discovery of the real Homo Floresiensis in college was the inspiration behind this flash fiction.

A lone inventor creates a disintegrator that can erase anything. He uses it to bore tunnels under his house. But, when he drops his device, sending it plummeting thousands of miles down to the subterranean Vickstak Empire, all hell breaks loose. With a beautiful heroine trapped underground, and a molemen war brewing, it's up to Horace, a 24-year-old hick from Missouri, to save the day.